Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”

Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”

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    First off I’d agree in the case of most elections since the 80s. When shit like Project 2025 is flashed and you dont vote against the fascist… yeah you’re fucking short sighted and have no moral high ground. The other option wouldn’t put brown people in torture camps in El Salvador and violate international law by bombing boats.

    Harris is typical neoliberalism trash and the last serious contender for the presidency who gave a shit about people who work for a living was Bernie and then FDR. She was objectively the right choice to vote for if you have a soul at all.

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      She was the objectively better candidate in 2024, but she was also objectively a trash candidate. Electing her would have meant continued acceptance of a political mindset and process that has reliably and consistently given us trash candidates for decades.

      2024 was as good a time as any to give up on the DNC.

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        I’d agree with your first sentence 100%. I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were with getting GOOD candidates elected though. I’m sure we could guess how involved they were.

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      See, you still don’t understand.

      When the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working, you don’t blame the people not falling in line for an establishment candidate. Instead, you should be blaming the people making it so all we have to choose from is ‘evil’ and ‘slightly-less-evil.’

      If we could run good candidates that actually represent the working class instead of just candidates who aren’t as bad as the opposition, then this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.

      You are doing your part to support the two-pronged strategy, and the working class continues to suffer because of it. Please do better. Please be smarter.

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        No, I understand the rationale. It’s just shit, infantile logic. I guarantee you I do more for getting leftists in than the moral high grounders did on average plus a SD or two. It’s just easier to say inaction isn’t an action and act like you’re not indirectly responsible for the shit you preached against and more.